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Surrounded by an audience, including local media such as WCHS Radio, with a large photograph of President Franklin Roosevelt hanging over his head, Rush Holt drives home his message.

1. Rush Holt Delivers Speech, Charleston, W. Va.

IDNO:: 047137
Title:: Rush Holt Delivers Speech, Charleston, W. Va.
Date:: undated
Description:: Surrounded by an audience, including local media such as WCHS Radio, with a large photograph of President Franklin Roosevelt hanging over his head, Rush Holt drives home his message.

A car sits by the Malden Fire Department with a sign that reads "Vote Rush Holt IN, State House Gang OUT". The photograph was most likely taken during one of Rush Holt's campaign's for state office.

2. Car With Rush Holt Campaign Sign, Malden, W. Va.

IDNO:: 047141
Title:: Car With Rush Holt Campaign Sign, Malden, W. Va.
Date:: undated
Description:: A car sits by the Malden Fire Department with a sign that reads "Vote Rush Holt IN, State House Gang OUT". The photograph was most likely taken during one of Rush Holt's campaign's for state office.

Helen Holt swearing in to new job at FHA. Dr. Frederick Brown Harris is pictured as well, along with a Methodist Church Chaplin.

3. Helen Holt Accepting Position with Federal Housing Administration

IDNO:: 047235
Title:: Helen Holt Accepting Position with Federal Housing Administration
Date:: undated
Description:: Helen Holt swearing in to new job at FHA. Dr. Frederick Brown Harris is pictured as well, along with a Methodist Church Chaplin.

Rush Holt and his wife, Helen Holt, smile as they pet an elephant.

4. Rush and Helen Holt at West Virginia Republican State Convention

IDNO:: 052368
Title:: Rush and Helen Holt at West Virginia Republican State Convention
Date:: 1952
Description:: Rush Holt and his wife, Helen Holt, smile as they pet an elephant.

Holt was a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates from 1931-1954 and a senator from 1935-1941 on the Democratic ticket. By 1936, Holt emerged as a vocal conservative critic of the New Deal, attacking, for example, the Works Progress Administration as corrupt and inefficient. He switched to the Republican party in 1949.

5. Senator Rush D. Holt Speaking to Crowd, Shinnston, W. Va.

IDNO:: 052369
Title:: Senator Rush D. Holt Speaking to Crowd, Shinnston, W. Va.
Date:: 1936/04/01
Description:: Holt was a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates from 1931-1954 and a senator from 1935-1941 on the Democratic ticket. By 1936, Holt emerged as a vocal conservative critic of the New Deal, attacking, for example, the Works Progress Administration as corrupt and inefficient. He switched to the Republican party in 1949.